Not a teacher but I worked in a support position until just before Covid. I would not consider being a teacher for any pay scale. It’s brutal.

First, they spend a good chunk of their time on non direct-teaching responsibilities, from addressing behavioral issues, to dealing with parents, to completing PBE report cards that can be six pages long.

Second, in my district they had little support when students acted out. I heard one student call a teacher in a same-sex marriage a faggot. Student was sent to the principal’s office only to return 20 minutes later. Other students had parents who threatened teachers for attempting to disciple their children. The most shocking might have been the student who called the principal a “mother f@er” in a crowded hallway. The principal just stood there and said, “That’s not how we speak to each other, is it?

It’s only gotten worse since Covid according to my friends who work as teachers and para educators.